Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Each melon and gourd displays, in its massive and purposeful rotundity, the benefits of collective selfcriticism. Like the bulbous backside of a Cadillac in America 20 years ago, the distended cabbage and the steatopygous turnip are images of Good Government. In this land, imagination goes about its business with methodical certainty. There are no lopeared, ginger-bearded visionaries lurching about in the paddyfields, frightening the crows. "I thought the water pipes in this painting didn't look nice bare," one artist is quoted in the catalogue about his work, The New Look of Our Piggery, "so we painted some gourd...
Delegates also seem to be reaching an agreement on a method of choosing representatives to the new government...
Trading rhythm for awareness t do you call people who use the rhythm method of birth control?" went the old joke. The snap retort: "Parents." That cynical humor was based on unhappy experience. The rhythm method, in which a woman keeps track of her menstrual cycle on the calendar to determine the time of ovulation and hence of maximum fertility, proved to be only about 60% effective. Now the Department of Health, Education and Welfare is bankrolling a $1.4 million study, involving 800 California couples, to test the effectiveness of a new, natural birth control system that may be more...
Because the method is "natural," it is acceptable to the Roman Catholic Church. Indeed, Monsignor Robert Deegan, of the Los Angeles archdiocese, actively lobbied to get the HEW study grant approved. Still, says Dr. Phyllis McCarthy, an investigator for the study, "some priests are skeptical about the method. They got burned by advising couples to use the rhythm system and don't want any more babies named after them...
...Cedars Sinai Medical Center, will not be in until 1979. But early indications have been so promising that Monsignor Deegan is now establishing a center in Los Angeles for the dissemination throughout the world of information about fertility awareness. The name of the center: World Organization of the Ovulation Method Billings -or, for short. WOOMB...